Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikidemia/Quant

  Participants

• Jeremy Tobacman
• Sj
• Erik Garrison
• Hector Zenil

A small but growing group of researchers are carrying out quantitative studies of the content and community in wikis including Wikipedia. This project aims to bolster these efforts by establishing a coherent, community-driven framework for carrying out such research.

This goal can be partly satisfied by constructing and maintaining a publicly-available set of statistical metrics and datasets which will be of use to many members of research community.

TODO List

TODO Queue --- currently scheduled activities.

Other:

• Establish an annotated bibliography of prior quantitative research on Wikipedia.
• Contact everyone who has done quantitative work on Wikipedia, in hopes that their experiences (and code) will inform our own work with the data.
• Construct a working set of stats to produce.
  • Current Objective(s)
  • Pipeline: proposals for fundraising tests and evaluations
  • Archive
• Establish a list of statistics could be created with readership data, and describe procedures to safeguard privacy while analyzing various forms of readership data.
• Architectural details
• Code and scripts for working with the data
• Funding sources and proposals